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Brita Lovén
Brita may refer to: People * Brita Appelgren (1912–1999), Swedish film actress * Brita Baldus (born 1965), German diver, who competed for East Germany until the unification in 1991 * Brita Biörn * Brita Borg (1926–2010), Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist * Brita Borge (1931–2013), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party * Brita Bratland (1910–1975), Norwegian folk singer * Brita Catharina Lidbeck (1788–1864), Swedish Dilettante concert singer * Brita Collett Paus (1917–1998), Norwegian humanitarian leader * Brita Drewsen (1887–1983), Swedish artist and businesswoman * Brita Filter, American drag queen * Brita Granström (born 1969), Swedish artist who graduated from Konstfack Stockholm in 1994 and now lives and works between Great Britain and her homeland * Brita Hagberg (1756–1825), Swedish soldier * Brita Hazelius (1909–1975), Swedish breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics * Brita Horn (1745–1791), Swedish cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Appelgren
Brita Appelgren (21 December 1912 – 29 October 1999) was a Swedish film actress.Gustafsson p.103 Selected filmography * ''She Is the Only One'' (1926) * ''His English Wife'' (1927) * ''The Blue Mouse'' (1928) * ''Artificial Svensson'' (1929) * ''Love and Champagne'' (1930) * '' Ulla, My Ulla'' (1930) * ''Cavaliers of the Crown'' (1930) * '' Tired Theodore'' (1931) * '' Ship Ahoy!'' (1931) * '' Kanske en gentleman'' (1935) * ''Shipwrecked Max ''Shipwrecked Max'' (German: ''Rendezvous im Paradies'', Swedish: ''Skeppsbrutne Max'') is a 1936 Austrian-Swedish drama film directed by Fritz Schulz and Sigurd Wallén and starring Max Hansen, Gull-Maj Norin and Brita Appelgren.Qvist & Von Bag ...'' (1936) References Bibliography * Tommy Gustafsson. ''Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films''. McFarland, 2014. External links * 1912 births 1999 deaths Swedish film actresses Swedish silent film actresses 20th-century Swedish actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Lindholm
Brita Lindholm (born 12 December 1963) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... curler. (look for "Lindholm, Brita") She is a 1983 Swedish women's champion. Teams References External links * * Living people 1963 births Swedish female curlers Swedish curling champions {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Sophia De La Gardie
Brita Sophia De la Gardie (22 April 1713 – 1797) was a Swedish noble and amateur actress who later converted to Catholicism and became a nun. She was a central member of the cultural life in Stockholm in her time. She played a part in the history of Swedish theatre. She was the maternal aunt of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger. Life Brita Sophia De La Gardie was born to the politician Count Magnus Julius De la Gardie and the political salonist Hedvig Catharina Lillie. She was the sister-in-law to the scientist Eva Ekeblad. Culture personality During the 1720s and 1730s, amateur theatre was immensely popular in Stockholm and at the royal court. At the time, there were no Swedish language theatre in the capital; only foreign theatre companies performed professionally at the national stage of the Bollhuset Theatre. In 1732, ''Dom Japhlet d'Arménie'' by Scarron was performed at the stage of Bollhuset by the noble amateur troupe of Count Carl Gustaf Tessin and Countess Ulla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Sofia Hesselius
Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country. Hesselius was born in Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality as the daughter of Olof Hesselius, inspector of an estate, and Anna Katarina Roman. From 1845 to 1853, she managed a girl school in Karlstad. In parallel, she was active with a daguerreotype photographic studio. She was as such the first professional female photographer of her country: by Frederick Renard before , the first female photographer who opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Snellman
Brita Snellman, also Brita Ribbing, (21 May 1901 - 9 June 1978) was a Swedish architect. In 1924, she became the first woman to graduate in architecture as a regular student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Biography Snellman obtained good results in drawing and mathematics in her school leaving examination after her schooling in the Stockholm district of Djursholm. As a result, her father, a bank manager, engaged Gunnar Asplund Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style whi ... to introduce her to architecture. In 1920, she was admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology as a special student but the following year, after a change in the statutes, she was given the status of a regular student. In 1924, Snellman was the first woman to graduate in architecture un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Sigourney
Brita Sigourney (born January 17, 1990) is an American freestyle skier. Career She attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, and later went on to attend the University of California, Davis, where she played water polo. She trained in her career as a freestyle skier in Park City, Utah. She won a silver medal in the superpipe at Winter X Games XV Winter X Games XV (styled as Winter X Games Fifteen in the official logo) were held from January 26 to January 30, 2011, in Aspen, Colorado. They are the 10th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen. The events were broadcast on ESPN. Sport ... in 2011, followed by a bronze in 2012. She has competed in both the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 6th in 2014. She won a bronze medal in the 2018 Olympics on February 19, 2018, with a score of 91.6, which she achieved on her third run. Until her third run, the judges expressed to an NBC broadcaster their approval of her form and amplitude but that she needed improve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Scheel
Birgitte "Brita" Scheel (1638–1699), was a Danish noblewoman who married a Danish nobleman who became Swedish with the annexation of Denmark's eastern provinces. For that reason, Birgitte belongs both to Danish and Swedish history, and her family lives on in the now Swedish province of Scania (Skåne). Biography Birgitte Scheel (Skeel) was the daughter of the Danish chancellor Christen Albretsen Scheel (1603–59) and Birgitte Rud (1612–45). She married the vice president of the High Court of Western Sweden Göta Hovrätt, the Scanian nobleman Christian Barnekow (1626–66) in 1660, the Danish chancellor count Christoffer Parsberg (1632–71) in 1669 and then the powerful Scanian nobleman and Danish Chancellor of the Realm Knud Thott (1639–1702) in 1682. Scheel made herself much talked about by her contemporaries. She was close friends with the powerful courtier and politician Griffenfeld who later fell into disgrace. In 1659, at her father's funeral in Copenhagen, Brita S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Sailer
Brita J. Sailer (born 1953) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 2B, which includes all or portions of Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Pennington and Polk counties in the northwestern part of the state. A Democrat, she is an art teacher, freelance artist and consultant. Sailer was first elected in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006 and 2008. She was unseated by Republican Dave Hancock in the 2010 general election. She was a member of the House Environment Policy and Oversight Committee, and was vice chair of the Environment Policy and Oversight Subcommittee for the Game, Fish and Forestry Division. She also served on the Commerce and Labor Subcommittee for the Telecommunications Regulation and Infrastructure Division, and on the Finance subcommittees for the Energy Finance and Policy Division and the Housing Finance and Policy and Public Health Finance Division. Sailer attended Alexandria High School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Ryy
Brita Ryy (1725–1783) was a Swedish educator and member of the Moravian Church. Brita Ryy was the daughter of a vicar and married the wealthy Snus-factory owner Petter Swartz (1726–1789) in Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ..., with whom she had eight children. She was described as well educated and as the partner of her spouse in his interest for philanthropy, particularly Christian education influenced by the Moravian Church. In 1772, the couple founded the ''Swartska friskolan'' ('Swarts' Free School') The school was open for both poor girls and boys, did not use the physical punishments normally used in schools, and used a pedagogical method inspired by the Moravian Church, and had a methodical and psychological foundation considered radically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Rosladin
Brita Rosladin (1626–1675) was a politically influential Swedish noblewoman. She is known for her supplicant activity which she managed through her contacts and marriage to the Lord High Treasurer of Sweden, . She was the daughter of and Christina Posse. She married Sten Nilsson Bielke in 1655, and became the mother of Ture Stensson Bielke. Brita Rosladin was considered greatly influential within the political elite in Sweden of her day and was known to be a person to whom supplicants could turn to in issues which required help from the highest officials of the realm.Norrhem, Svante (2007). Kvinnor vid maktens sida : 1632-1772. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Libris länk. She was a dominant figure in her family: she managed the family economy and had, according to Lorenzo Magalotti, so much influence over her husband that he was not left with much power in his own home. According to the Astrian Imperial envoy von Sternberg, the only thing necessary for anyone who wished to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Pipare
Brita, "the wife of Jöran Pipare" (floruit 1595) was an alleged Swedish witch. Her case is a significant one, illustrating a witch trial held when the belief in witchcraft had increased, but the law still did not permit harsh persecution of magic practice. Brita is described in court protocol as "Brita, fru till Jöran Pipare" ('Brita, wife of Jöran the Flute player'). In September 1593, Brita was charged with sorcery in Stockholm alongside the cunning woman "Margareta from Norrsunda". Margareta was active as a folk magician who practiced medicine, exposed thieves and gave rest to ghosts by magic charms: however, as she denied to have used these charms to hurt any one, she was acquitted with a reprimand, as the court did not take her seriously. Brita was accused of having caused illness as well as economical damage to some of the city merchants by use of magic. She admitted to have used '' signeri'' (spells) and '' lövjeri'' (potions), but she denied to have had any dealings wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Persdotter Karth
Brita Persdotter Karth is a fictional person in Swedish history. She was earlier believed to have been the mistress or perhaps even wife of the exiled prince Gustav of Sweden, son of king Eric XIV, and her eldest son Lars was believed to have been the forefather of the noble Swedish families of Eldstierna and Stierneld. The story behind the legend The history about Brita Karth and her alleged children with prince Gustav was the product of baron Adolf Ludvig Stierneld (1755-1835), courtier and a well-known collector of historical documents, whom historians have later found also to be a ruthless forger of such documents. Wishing to claim a royal ancestry for his own family Stierneld reported having found handwritten notes by Brita Karth herself regarding her relation and family with Gustav in an old pious book that was to have been given to her by Gustav's mother, Karin Månsdotter. Although Stierneld's claims were at the time accepted by the Swedish House of Nobility they were als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |